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SERGIUS I

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SERGIUS I ., See also:pope from 687 to 701, came of an Antiochene See also:family which had settled at See also:Palermo. He was elected after a fierce struggle between two other candidates, See also:Paschal and See also:Theodore. In the second See also:year of his pontificate he baptized See also:King Ceadwalla of Wessex at See also:Rome. For rejecting certain canons of the Trullan (Quinisext) See also:council of 692, Justinian II. commanded his See also:arrest and transportation to See also:Constantinople, but the See also:militia of See also:Ravenna and the Pentapolis forced the imperial protospatharius to abandon the See also:attempt to carry out his orders. Sergius was followed by See also:John VI. as pope.

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